Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 415: Linkwood 33 Year Old 1988 The Whisky Jury – Scotch Whisky News
Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 415: Linkwood 33 Year Old 1988 The Whisky Jury
Mark Dermul, Belgian whisky blogger, tries a very old Linkwood. ‘In remembrance of Mr Peter Cowell’ is written in small print on the label. The Scotsman Cowell recently died and had this cask of Linkwood in his possession. The children sold the cask and that’s how it ended up with Joeri from The Whisky Jury. They couldn’t have found of a better bottler, Mark thinks. Joeri even gave them a few bottles to pay tribute to their father. It is a refill hogshead that has been sleeping for no less than 33 years since March 1988. ‘I didn’t even have my driver’s license yet’, Mark quips. After just over three decades, the cask still yielded 176 bottles. You can find pictures of the actual barrel on the Facebook account of The Whisky Jury.
